DVD : The Notebook (New Line Platinum Series)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0794043749728
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 08, 2005
Running Time: 124 minutes
Sales Rank: 148
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 25, 2004
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Product Description:
Behind every great love is a great story. Two teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks fall in love during one summer together but are tragically forced apart. When they reunite 7 years later their passionate romance is rekindled forcing one of them to choose between true love and class order.Running Time: 124 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 794043749728
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When you consider that old-fashioned tearjerkers are an endangered species in Hollywood, a movie like The Notebook can be embraced without apology. Yes, it's syrupy sweet and clogged with clichés, and one can only marvel at the irony of Nick Cassavetes directing a weeper that his late father John--whose own films were devoid of saccharine sentiment--would have sneered at. Still, this touchingly impassioned and great-looking adaptation of the popular Nicholas Sparks novel has much to recommend, including appealing young costars (Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams) and appealing old costars (James Garner and Gena Rowlands, the director's mother) playing the same loving couple in (respectively) early 1940s and present-day North Carolina. He was poor, she was rich, and you can guess the rest; decades later, he's unabashedly devoted, and she's drifting into the memory-loss of senile dementia. How their love endured is the story preserved in the titular notebook that he reads to her in their twilight years. The movie's open to ridicule, but as a delicate tearjerker it works just fine. Message in a Bottle and A Walk to Remember were also based on Sparks novels, suggesting a triple-feature that hopeless romantics will cherish. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating:  -
Seriously, I don't get the rave reviews for this movie. People I know are ranting about it as if actually came within a mile of such love classics as "Titanic", "Pearl Harbor", and "A Walk in the Clouds". Trust me, it doesn't; this film doesn't set a toe on the royal grounds of films like that. And what beats me is, why? This movie has an excellent story, is based on a breathtakingly moving book, and stuck almost entirely to the book; what went wrong??
Maybe it's the characterizations. Let's start with romantic hero (or maybe fanatic) Noah. The initial meeting between them, so gently lovely in the book, is nothing even close in the movie. Instead of a mutual attraction like the one in the book, we have heroine Ally on a date with someone else and Noah chasing her like some lovesick clown. She's not interested, he won't take no for an answer, and he follows her around the whole date, even hanging from a bar on the ferris wheel, dangling in front of her seat at one point! Is this supposed to be endearing? I found it annoyingly idiotic: this guy isn't a romantic, he's a clownish dope. Eventually, for reasons I can't remember, Ally agrees to a date and finds herself slowly drawn into him. It's beyond me why; his idea of quiet time is lying on a street beneath a traffic light, late at night when the street's deserted. When he does this in front of her, she slowly lies down and joins him on the pavement with a thoughtful look on her face, as though she actually finds what ... Read More
Rating:  -
I can't believe it took me so long to see this movie. I tend to stick to the older love stories, like Breakfast At Tiffany's, Casablanca, Gone With The Wind, etc..difficult love intrigues more more than the simple boy meets girl, she must chose, teen angst, first love romance. Which is what The Notebook is and yet it amazed me from beginning to end. It's a typical love story in so many ways and yet it's able to stand on it's own as a epic love story like no other.
What makes The Notebook so different are the actors. Enough can not be said about classics like James Garner and Gena Rowlands who are spectacular as the aging Noah and Allie. That said it was truly Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling that stole this entire film with every single scene they are in. You felt the connection between Allie and Noah from the start and knew that this kind of love was so pure and true and yet they were sweet, real, endearing, cute and most of all humorous.
Allie is the spoiled city girl from big time money and yet she's down to earth, witty and leads her life with her heart. Noah is a simple, sweet country boy who only has eyes for Allie from the moment he sees her. Noah sees a light in Allie that no one else can see and she becomes the color in his dull world. Noah is also the man all women want. He makes promises and he sticks to them. He loves with all of his heart and he finished what he starts.
They met, they fall in love and they are separated by parents, ... Read More
Rating: -
I do not prefer romances and I do not like Nick Sparks... But I did like this movie. I had always heard my girl friends swoon over it but refused to watch it. One day, sick in bed, it was all I had to watch. And I have to say, not only did I like it, I cried a little. (And by a little, I mean a lot.) The idea of a life-long love appeals to some but not to most. Today's society no longer understands enduring love -- probably why it doesn't appeal to men or teenage crowds. Regardless, it is your A-Typical era-long love story with a sad ending. But the journey was worth it. And I hope those that do watch this movie with hesitation walk away learning a little something about marriage and love and the way those two work together to surmount life-long dedication. There -- now I sound like a girl.
Rating:  -
There is a simple explanation for why someone would give a bad rating for this movie...they have never known what it's like to have loved and lost or almost lost someone. This movie makes sense to people who believe to have met their soul mate. That magical connection that Noah and Alli portray is only something some of us get to experience and understand.
Therefore, this movie gets five stars from me and is my favorite movie of all time. I've never been so glued to the television. I've never cried so hard at emotions being acted out, or the writing striking so close to home. I do not seek out tear-jerker movies and finding this movie was an accident. Well done!!
Rating: -
An excellent movie that really touches the heart. All people
who have Alzheimer's Disease affecting family or friends should see this
movie. Highly recommend movie to viewers. The Notebook has my highest
rating!
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starring: Tim Ivey, Gena Rowlands, Starletta DuPois, James Garner, Anthony-Michael Q. Thomas
directed by: Nick Cassavetes
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0794043749728
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 08, 2005
Running Time: 124 minutes
Sales Rank: 148
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 25, 2004
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